Blues Guitarist
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Yes, but 16 fl oz of American Budweiser or Miller Lite really isn't a proper beer.
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[Drinking] is it time to retire the pint?
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North of Robertsbridge
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True, but the US has some truly fantastic local breweries and micro-breweries (one of my favourites is Uinta Brewing, close to SLC airport). Arrive there early for a flight home and pour yourself onto the plane
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
My go to drink will always be a pint but i think I'd like the option of a 2/3 pint particularly if it's something strong and hoppy.
Thats 2 squirts of screen wash over here.
- Oct 17, 2008
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The Grauniad are just Crodo level trolls at this point really, aren’t they?
The Maharajah of Sydney
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Just spent a week in Colorado - the landscape has completely changed in the U.S when it comes to beer.
Craft beer everywhere you look, even the smallest of bars would have a dozen or so on tap.
Budweiser and Miller Lite nowhere to be seen - did spot a Bud lite tap at LAX but even L.A and Denver airports were awash with Craft
Seagull58
In the Algarve
It wouldn't happen in Germany.It's about time isnt it?
I know Labour have had a tough time of it lately but they could get their polularity back on track by going with progressive policies like this.
The power of the pint: is it time to retire one of the world’s biggest beer measures?
A study suggested last week that adopting a two-thirds serve could improve public health. But is the pint really the problem?www.theguardian.com
John Byrnes Mullet
Global Circumnavigator
Click bait on this article and post. Once you get out of London and Brighton, no one heard of two thirds.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
I do drink halves sometimes when out for what would have been a few years ago “a few pints”. But that’s simply age. If we got rid of the pint I suppose there’s also no halves. Half of what?
- Oct 17, 2008
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As Swansman alluded to earlier, this is going to be taken on as yet another excuse to give less, charge the same or more. Shrinkflation Britain.
Seems like everything is costing more for less thanks to Brexit, corporate greed, etc etc.
Marketing and branding is so important. You can spin anything and idiots will stay at heel.
Seems like everything is costing more for less thanks to Brexit, corporate greed, etc etc.
Marketing and branding is so important. You can spin anything and idiots will stay at heel.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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This.
Particularly at Half time.
By the time I've queued up and got a beer, I'm rushing the pint.
No way I'd ever opt for a half though - 2/3s would be ideal.
el punal
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phoenix
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- May 18, 2009
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Good idea you could have 10 pints then a 2/3 to take it easy
From my cold dead hands.
You`re right i do need to calm down , but after supporting The Albion since my first game 52 years ago you can take that Nigel dig and shove it up your arse.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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It is absurd though, the sheer volume of liquid. Back in the day I'd do multiple pints on a night out, but you wouldn't go to a restaurant and drink 8 pints of tea, water, coffee or (non thick) milkshake, yet it's deemed the norm with beer, consuming a ridiculous amount of liquid (forget the alcohol content).
I do think this. Especially since I pretty much gave up drinking. Pints look huge. I suppose they are!
Last time I went out proper drinking I was sick when I got home. Not through alcohol, just the sheer volume of liquid in my stomach.